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Agricultural Policy-Making in Sub Saharan Africa: APRM Process in Kenya
Author(s): Simon,Kimenju;Raphael,Gitau;Betty,Kibaara;James,Nyoro;Michael,Bruntrup;Roukayatou,Zimmermann
Introduction
The New Partnership for Africa‘s Development (NEPAD) was adopted by the African Union
Heads of State and Government Summit held in Lusaka, Zambia, in July 2001. NEPAD is a
strategic policy framework for Africa‘s renewal and rebirth. The primary objectives of NEPAD
are to eradicate poverty; place African countries, both individually and collectively, on a path of
sustainable growth and development; halt the marginalization of Africa in the globalization
process and enhance its full and beneficial integration into the global economy; and accelerate
the empowerment of women (NEPAD, 2003). The five core principles of NEPAD are good
governance; peace, stability and security; sound economic policy-making and management;
effective partnerships; and domestic ownership and leadership.
A centerpiece of the NEPAD good governance initiative is the African Peer Review Mechanism
(APRM), which is a voluntary mechanism that countries review themselves on several agreed
criteria. The primary purpose of the APRM is: “to foster the adoption of policies, standards and
practices that lead to political stability, high economic growth, sustainable development and
accelerated sub-regional and continental economic integration through sharing of experiences
and reinforcement of successful and best practice, including identifying deficiencies and
assessing the needs for capacity building.” Countries are assisted to achieve NEPAD’s objectives
through constructive peer dialogue and persuasion and sharing of information and opening
themselves to critical scrutiny by both peers (other African countries) and independent and
widely respected, so-called eminent persons assessing itself on a set of objectives, standards,
criteria and indicators in various domains of governance and development.
Since APRM is a mechanism that countries review themselves on several agreed criteria, the
results of the self review and recommendations have to be integrated into the national making
process for each particular country in order to achieve intended results. Various countries have
undertaken the review differently and with differing progress and results. There is thus need to
know how to best anchor APRM into the national making process and gauge the influence it is
having on national policies. Hence the objective of this study is to understand how APRM could
be integrated into the national policy making to utilize key drivers of positive change. Specific
objectives of the study are;
(i) Assess the extent to which the current domestic policies incorporate the key aspects of
APRM and the extent to which it may have influenced local processes and frameworks, and
(ii) Identify and assess how APRM processes can be more integrated with national policy
processes, with particular attention to the information needs of policy-making.
Language: English
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